Tuesday 5th February 2013Market day in Saikeri. Busiest day of the week in clinic, although we still strolled in at a leisurely ten a.m. Saw women with unwell babies, mostly repiratory infections, and I got to diagnose my first case of "clinical" malaria - "clinical" because despite the negative spot test, the young lad had all the signs and symptoms, so we treated him anyway. I'm getting to do pretty much as much as I put myself forward for, and the English speaking patients (who are rare) I get to see by myself. It's odd prescribing drugs, then dispensing them - the whole package .The market was full of brightly coloured ladies selling beads, blankets and "stuff", nattering and catching up with the gossip. I got a chance to see some of the shops - the most enterprising a stall with a generator, where you pay 30 Kenyan shillings and have your appliance charged, while having your hair cut and buying kerosene for your lamp. Pottered down to a tree with my fellow nurse to buy a goat (she did, not me!), then back to shut up shop and wander home with our new guest, Wendy, who is to be my room-mate for the next week. I'm off to Nairobi tomorrow to catch up with the outreach program, which involves visiting the slums, and a long hot bike ride through a park called "Hell's Gate" which doesn't bode well........
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